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The Nimble Cook: New Strategies for Great Meals That Make the Most of Your Ingredients
The Nimble Cook: New Strategies for Great Meals That Make the Most of Your Ingredients
The Nimble Cook: New Strategies for Great Meals That Make the Most of Your Ingredients
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The Nimble Cook: New Strategies for Great Meals That Make the Most of Your Ingredients

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A paradigm-shifting book that helps cooks think on their feet, create brilliant dishes from ingredients on hand, and avoid wasting food.

For more than two decades, Ronna Welsh has been empowering home cooks and chefs with radically simple strategies for cooking creatively and efficiently. In this sweeping masterwork with 400 recipes, she shows how to make varied, impromptu, economical, and delicious meals by coaxing the most flavor from common ingredients.

The Nimble Cook teaches optimal prep methods, like the perfect way to dry and store greens—forget the salad spinner—for a salad made in seconds to pair with a vinaigrette composed of refrigerator door condiments. It provides hundreds of “starting point” recipes to transform basic dishes into luxurious ones, like an onion jam for burgers; a cheese stock for decadent risotto; or a mix of salt and whirred bay leaves that takes roasted shrimp or fish from ordinary to extraordinary. Welsh teaches nimble cooks irresistible uses for parts that otherwise go to waste, whether cucumber peels in kimchi or apple cores in a sweet-and-sour syrup for a bourbon cocktail. Graceful illustrations throughout provide further inspiration, making this book an essential addition to any creative cook's kitchen.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 2, 2019
ISBN9780544936843
The Nimble Cook: New Strategies for Great Meals That Make the Most of Your Ingredients
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Ronna Welsh

Ronna (pronounced RAH-nah) Welsh is the owner and chef of Purple Kale Kitchenworks, a cooking school in Brooklyn. Her paradigm-shifting ideas have been covered in the New York Times, Bon Appe´tit, and Tasting Table.

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